The shooting happened on Wednesday, and Saint Louis was yet again the scene of retaliatory violence by the community toward police.  On cue today CNN is stoking the issue, with their pontifications about an initial autopsy showing the bullet that killed Ball-Bey traveled from back to front, right to left.
Despite the CNN pitch, this does not seem to indicate much of anything.  If you were standing 20 feet away from someone and they shot toward you, your natural untrained instinct would be to you to turn your shoulder and slightly duck.  If you were simultaneously holding a firearm in your right hand, this type of movement would account for an entry wound to your upper right shoulder (back) traveling toward your left.

Ironically Mansur Ball-Bey did a video (screen grab above) depicting thug life and featuring the exact type of weapon used shortly before his death.  His ‘thug life’ social media is HERE
ST. LOUIS • An autopsy on Mansur Ball-Bey, whose death from police gunfire this week stirred protests, showed that he died from a single wound in the back, police officials said.
Chief Sam Dotson said the wound’s location neither proves nor disproves the contention of officers at the scene that Ball-Bey refused to drop a gun and pointed it at them before being shot Wednesday.
An investigation of the particulars continues, Dotson said.
“Just because he was shot in the back doesn’t mean he was running away,” Dotson said. “It could be, and I’m not saying that it doesn’t mean that. I just don’t know yet.
“What I do know is that two officers were involved and fired shots, but I don’t know exactly where they were standing yet and I won’t know until I get their statements.”
The officers fired a total of four shots; one officer fired three times and the second officer fired once, police said.
Police sources tell the Post-Dispatch that investigators found fingerprints and DNA on the gun police say Ball-Bey pointed at them, but the results are not yet available. Sources also say a witness has come forward who heard the officers’ shots, then saw Ball-Bey throw his weapon before running through a gangway and collapsing in the front yard.
Killings by St. Louis police are reviewed by a Force Investigation Unit and separately by Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce’s office.
“It’s important to get all the facts to present to the circuit attorney’s office, and if she sees a criminal violation, she will prosecute,” Dotson said. “That’s why we formed the Force Investigation Unit, to do the best possible investigation and present the facts in their totality.”
Also, a copy of the police department’s final report will be sent to Richard Callahan, the U.S. attorney for eastern Missouri, for his review.
Jermaine Wooten, an attorney for Ball-Bey’s family, said witnesses and family members have told him the 18-year-old was unarmed and shot in the back.
“I told them, ‘If you want me to represent you, don’t lie to me. Did he have a gun?’ And they all said, ‘No,'” Wooten said.
Police said two officers fired at Ball-Bey as he flourished a handgun while trying to flee from a raid at what Dotson described as a known place “for drugs and guns” on Walton Avenue near Page Boulevard. They said Ball-Bey did not fire; no officers were hurt.
David Klinger, a University of Missouri-St. Louis criminologist who has studied hundreds of officer-involved shootings, said, “The issue isn’t where the round hits, it’s what the perceived threat was at the time the officer fired.”  (read more)